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Volume 187 Issue 10

19 November 2007

From the editor’s desk

Medical staff and the hospital

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 545 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 546 Free

Editorials

Tissue plasminogen activator for ischaemic stroke: highly effective, reasonably safe and grossly underused

Stephen M Davis, Peter J Hand and Geoffrey A Donnan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 548-549

Performance monitoring in Australia and England: from scandals to action

Mohammed A Mohammed and Andrew J Stevens

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 549-550

Research

Intravascular catheter bloodstream infections: an effective and sustained hospital-wide prevention program over 8 years

Peter J Collignon, Dianne E Dreimanis, Wendy D Beckingham, Jan L Roberts and Anne Gardner

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 551-554 Free

Where to seek help for a mental disorder?

Anthony F Jorm, Annemarie Wright and Amy J Morgan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 556-560 Free

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: factors influencing diagnostic delay

Tricia Y J Quek, Margaret J Henry, Julie A Pasco, Daniel P O’Brien, Paul D R Johnson, Andrew Hughes, Allen C Cheng, Jane Redden-Hoare and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 561-563 Free

Comparison of crystalline methamphetamine (“ice”) users and other patients with toxicology-related problems presenting to a hospital emergency department

Philippa J Bunting, Gordian W O Fulde and S Lesley Forster

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 564-566 Free

Health care

A protocol-driven model for the rapid initiation of stroke thrombolysis in the emergency department

Julia J Batmanian, Meeyin Lam, Caitlin Matthews, Andrew Finckh, Martin Duffy, Robert Wright, Bruce J Brew and Romesh Markus

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 567-570 Free

Identifying variations in quality of care in Queensland hospitals

Stephen J Duckett, Michael Coory and Kirstine Sketcher-Baker

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 571-575 Free

Clinical experience of the first digital mammographic unit in Australia in its first year of use

Emma Pun, W F Eddie Lau, Robin Cassumbhoy, Anthony J Taranto and Alexander G Pitman

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 576-579 Free

Improving clinical care

Monitoring antiepileptic drug therapy with serum level measurements

Frank J E Vajda

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 581

Serum sodium valproate testing: is it appropriate?

Chamishani Rathmalgoda, Julia M Potter and Christian J Lueck

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 582-584 Free

Viewpoint

Antidepressants and suicide in young people

Robert D Goldney

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 586-587 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

A professional kitesurfer with multiple liver lesions

Stefan Buchholz and George Rudan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 590-591

Snapshots

Magnetic resonance imaging for paraneoplastic dermatomyositis

Daniele Torchia, Emiliano Antiga, Letizia Ricupero, Marzia Caproni and Paolo Fabbri

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 589 Free

Arrhythmogenic left ventricular false tendon

Robin A P Weir, Henry J Dargie and Iain N Findlay

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 591 Free

Correction

Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

Alison J Venn, Russell J Thomson, Michael D Schmidt, Verity J Cleland, Beverley A Curry, Hanni C Gennat and Terence Dwyer

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 599

Letters

High levels of cannabis use persist in Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

K S Kylie Lee, Alan R Clough and Katherine M Conigrave

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 594-595 Free

A national survey of medical morning handover report in Australian hospitals

Erwin Loh

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 595-596

A national survey of medical morning handover report in Australian hospitals

Matthew J Fassett, Terry J Hannan, Iain K Robertson, Steven J Bollipo and Robert G Fassett

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 595-596

MIMS is not a stand-alone resource

James L Mallows

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 596-597

MIMS is not a stand-alone resource

David T Graham

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 596-597

International conferences on rare diseases: initiatives in commitment, patient care and connections

Yvonne A Zurynski, Katie N Reeve and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 597

Drowning and three-wheel strollers

Roger W Byard and Neil Matthews

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 597-598

Herpes compunctorum: cutaneous herpes simplex virus infection complicating tattooing

Catherine S Marshall, Felicity Murphy, Shannon E McCarthy and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 598

Driving assessment and rehabilitation after stroke

Zoe A Allen, Julie Halbert and Lydia Huang

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 599

Book reviews

eMJA: Primary care, as it stands

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10):

eMJA: Contemporary general practice

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10):

eMJA: Anaesthesia: counting backwards

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10):

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

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